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Harold Smith Prince, 37, has struck his bonanza in one of the roughest, toughest, least tractable businesses: the Broadway theater. A combination businessman-showman, he has produced or co-produced ten hit musicals- including Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello! and Fiddler On The Roof -that have earned $5,300,000 and brought him a personal worth of just over $1,000,000. Hal Prince has precisely the right balance of creativity, charm and salesmanship that makes a successful producer. "It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class," he says...
Furthermore, there is nothing to suggest that Lindsay will have an easy time being reelected Mayor. He has been fond of citing Fiorello La Guardia as his spiritual predecessor; it is only prudent to note that La Guardia tended to receive smaller majorities each time he ran, and he had larger majorities than Lindsay to begin with. (John Purrey Mitchell, an earlier reform mayor, failed to win reelection entirely.) Whatever the success of his programs, the new Mayor will certainly receive plenty of adulation from the Herald Tribune, Times, Time, etc., but New York in 1969 will still...
...Puerto Rican, 11% Italian, 4% Irish. There are an estimated 1,800,000 Jews, 3,400,000 Roman Catholics, and 1,700,000 Protestants. And there are 3½ times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. Thus, the rare Republican candidate who wins the mayoralty (the last was Fiorello La Guardia in 1941) must straddle a multitude of attitudes. He must seem liberal enough to win over people who normally vote Democratic, correct enough to hold the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) minority, yet independent enough to appeal to reform Democrats...
...next 20 years she was known as the organizational genius of the sindustry. Half the headwaiters in Manhattan were on her payroll; so were hundreds of police officials; and she had friends at the highest levels of the city, state and federal governments. Nevertheless, in 1945 Fiorello La Guardia finally forced Polly to shut up shop...
Pilgrims arrived every day by the hundreds. Hotels sprang up. A hospital, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, was built with the help of $400,000 raised by New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. In the piazza outside the church where Padre Pio said Mass and heard confessions, hand-painted tiles bearing the padre's bearded face and other tasteless souvenirs were on sale...